Hey, folks. Sorry for leaving you in the dark about when the next chapter will be up, but here it is!

Additional Disclaimer: Shawn K. (an OC appearing in this story) is owned by Mr. Cartoon

Also, here's a list of the Meddling Kids, just to give you an idea on which character belongs to which (should have done that earlier, huh?).

-The Pussycats: Josie, Alan, Valerie, Melody, Alexander, Alexandra, and Sebastian

-The Neptunes: Biff 2, Shelly, Bubbles, Clamhead, and Jabberjaw

-The Chan Clan: Mr. Charlie "The Amazing" Chan, Henry, Stanley, Suzie, Alan, Anne, Tom, Flip, Nancy, Mimi, Scooter, and Chu-Chu.

-Funky Phantom: Mudsy, Augie, Skip, April, Elmo and Boo

-Mystery Inc: Freddy, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and Flim-Flam

-Fangface: Biff 1, Kim, Pugsy, Fangs/Fangface, and Baby Fangs/Fangpuss

-Speed Buggy: Tinker, Mark, Debbie and Speed Buggy

-Teen Angels: Dee Dee Skyes, Brenda Chance, Taffy Dare, and Captain Caveman

-Clue Club: Larry, D.D., Pepper, Dotty, Woofer and Whimper

And just too keep myself in-check, here's the list of OC featured in this story:

-Owned by Wherever Girl: Brielle, Kiff, Chance, Jo, Lamone, Gin, Hardy, Drew, 'Luna' and Stalker

-Tracker78: Kassandra/Hunter, Samantha/Storm, and Elizabeth/Tracker

-Fangface the Second: Edwin, Kite/Kitefang, Lilly/Blackrose, Sirius, Marlow, Norm, Alyx, William/Kaiser, 'Shaun' and Silver

-Scoobycool9: Chase Hunter/Chris Howard, Nessie, Matthew 'Twiggy' Thorn/Nightclaw, Erica/Claw, Time Lord, Alexia, 'James' and Aaron.

-Me: Riffraff, Drista, Xyro, Zane, Fikk, LaRael, Ryoji and 'Ezekiel'

-and Mr. Cartoon: Cartoon All-Star Shawn K.

Now please enjoy this chapter while I pass out. *thud*

~12~

All the meddlers and the two authors raced down the hall, seeing a door marked 'Exit'. "There's the way out!" Josie exclaimed.

"Wow, and I thought this would be a complicated escape!" Stanley added.

They burst through the door-

Seeing they had entered a room full of guards, who were in the middle of a poker-tournament. A sign above them read 'Gotcha!', which obviously meant that this obviously wasn't the way out but an obvious trick instead and they were obviously in trouble. Obviously.

"Spoke too soon," Stanley gulped.

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!" shouted one of the guards- who we should add look like basically every kind of typical henchman out there (helmets with goggles, black combat armor, boots, guns, five o'clock shadow, lack of hygiene, etc.)- and they drew their guns.

"Okay, but how come we have to stay and THEY get to go?" Augie scoffed, nodding to the right.

"Who?" Another guard asked, and they all looked over… seeing no one there. They looked back, noticing the meddlers had all ran out. "HEY!"

"So much for an easy escape," Elizabeth said.

"I thought you guys had come that way," Kim questioned.

"We did," Mr. Cartoon answered. "Maybe it was a trick-door, an illusion to throw us off."

"Lets just find a way out of here, before those goons catch us," Valerie said, and they rushed down a hallway, where another door awaited.

[Now Playing: "The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors]

The door turned out to be full of guards too- who happened to be in the middle of a football game on TV- and when they saw the meddlers, they ran after them. With so many guards on their tails, the gangs had no choice but to split up.

The Chan Clan ran behind a door, and the guards opened it, seeing the family disguised as tennis-players. They held up their guns to fire, but Mimi hit a ball at one of their faces, knocking him back and having his gun go off, nearly shooting his comrades' heads off. The family then escaped through a different door back into the hallway.

Mudsy and his gang dove inside a door and the guards ran in, seeing there was nothing there but racks of guns, ammo, and five of their 'own men' cleaning them. However, one of them sneezed and accidentally turned invisible, helping the guards figure out they were some of the meddlers- but it was too late for Boo knocked over a stack of crates full of ammo on top of them, helping his friends make a getaway.

The Clue Club and Teen Angels ran inside a room, seeing it was a bathroom… and one of the guards was in the middle of a bath, causing him to shriek like a girl. They immediately ran out.

The Neptunes and Speedy's gang ran into one room, which was like that of a cargo-hold, and hid. The guards ran in, looking around, and Tinker cut a rope that released a net over them, stalling the guards long enough for them to escape.

Mr. Cartoon, Elizabeth, Biff 1, Kim, Freddy, Daphne, and Velma opened a door, seeing there was what appeared to be a dark version of the TARDIS, painted black and- rather than looking like an old-fashioned police telephone-box- looked more like a large cylinder with a mini-pyramid at the top and tinted-glass doors. Before they could observe it further, there were gunshots from behind, and Mr. Cartoon pulled out a smoke-bomb, unleashing it at the guards and obscuring their sight, giving the gang a chance to escape.

All the meddlers, miraculously, regrouped in one last hallway, as a horde of guards came running at them, chasing them to a dead-end. D.D. bumped into a bust, the head arching backwards as a lever, causing a large trap door to open beneath them, and they went sliding down a chute, zigzagging and loop-de-looping at every turn, until they shot out the end of it into what appeared to be a well.

[End Song]

"Ah, yes. THIS is where we came in at!" Mr. Cartoon said, proudly.

"The bottom of a well?" Shelly sneered.

"It was more accidental. While we were looking for the secret entrance, I tripped and fell in," Elizabeth admitted, blushing a bit. "I, um, sort of take after my dad like that."

"So how are we supposed to get out?" Taffy asked, feeling the walls. "These walls are too smooth to climb up,"

"Already taken care of," Mr. Cartoon answered, and let out a whistle. A rope was suddenly thrown down to them. "Going up?"

~12~

Once everyone was out of the well, they were surprised to see who had helped them out. Standing there was Flim-Flam, Scrappy, and a nice-looking young man with brown hair, wearing a purple shirt with a black jacket over it, black pants, and dark-blue shoes. "Is that…?" Pepper gasped.

"CARTOON ALL-STAR SHAWN K.! SQUEEEE!" Taffy, Brenda, Dee Dee, Suzie, Anne, Nancy, Mimi, Shelly, Bubbles, Melody *gasp pant* and Pepper all squealed, hearts bubbling over their heads.

"My reputation proceeds me," Shawn K. answered, shrugging.

"Not to sound lost in the dark here, but… who's Shawn K.?" Biff 1 asked… and everyone all gasped.

"Dude, he's only the biggest celebrity in the tooniverse!" Stanley answered. "He's a sports-star, TV-star, and well-known hero!"

"What are we, chopped liver?" Freddy scoffed.

"And where have you two been?" Daphne asked Scrappy and Flim-Flam. "We thought you two were coming to the concert too!"

"Ah, we couldn't get in," Flim-Flam sneered, kicking the dirt. "They said we were too big of 'rejects' to get in, being too low on the fan-list."

"Ouch, wonder what that's like," Skip said, only to be nudged by April.

"We went back home to grab some supplies to sneak in, but when we got back, you all were gone," Scrappy explained. "That's when Shawn K, Mr. Cartoon, and Tracker came and told us what was happening and requested our help."

"Uh, might I say something?" Elizabeth spoke up. "Been wanting to say this for a while… My name isn't exactly 'Tracker', it's Elizabeth. Tracker's just my werewolf half's name."

"Werewolf half's?" Biff 1 and Kim questioned, surprised.

"We didn't know you were a werewolf!" Kim said. "Why didn't you say so before?"

Elizabeth rubbed the back of her neck. "Well, back when I was sent to a foster home after being kidnapped, I got a head-injury that caused my two mental-identities to get mixed up- in other words, as a werewolf I had my human-mind, but as a human I had my werewolf's mind. With that kind of mental-switch, I didn't know how to turn into a werewolf properly." she smiled. "But I can now. My mind is back in order after I returned to the right future,"

"How is that possible?" Biff 1 asked.

"Well… apparently, I was never kidnapped."

"Hold it! I thought that you were kidnapped- you were just kidnapped not too long ago, and it was supposed to happen so you could travel to the past and help WG and FF2!" Kim questioned.

"Yeah… but I wasn't supposed to. Turns out, the whole timeline is messed up, remember?"

"So's this plot," Alexandra commented.

"From what I can figure out, LaRael must have used that machine we saw to re-arrange the timeline, to throw everyone off so no one could really understand what was supposed to really happen."

"Well, she did a good job of it- I have no idea what's going on now!" Alexander proclaimed.

"What should we do about it then?" Bubbles asked.

"Simple- we find the authors, we stop LaRael, and we make this plot less confusing!" Freddy answered.

"Then lets get to it," Shawn K. replied, clicking a button on his key-chain… and a luxury jet hovered down to them.

"…why can't we ever travel this nice?" Tom asked Alan.

~12~

"Who's mommy's little munchskin? You are! Yes you are, my wittle pumpkin-umpkin… Yes, you're so cute, yes you are! Mama loves you, a boo-boo-boo…"

"MA'AM!" One of the figures from an earlier chapter shouted, bursting in.

There was the sound of a baby screeching, and LaRael reached into the crib, stroking the infant inside. "Shh, it's okay, baby…" she said soothingly, then her voice became rough as she glared at her lacky. "It's just one of mommy's dead-brained henchmen." she put a rattle in the crib. "You just wait here, honey-suckle, while mama takes care of business."

There was a coo, and LaRael smiled, then walked out, calmly closing the door… then gripped her lacky by the throat. "How many times do I have to tell you not to disturb me when I'm with my child?!" she snarled.

"I-I'm sorry, ma'am! But it was urgent!" The lacky stammered, their ninja-mask crooked. "All the meddlers… they've escaped!"

"WHAT?!" LaRael then shook her lacky violently. "HOW COULD THEY HAVE ESCAPED YOU CLOD?!"

"W-W-We don't know, ma'am! Their cages were empty, and all the guards said they disappeared through a trap door! They re-opened it and went down the chute… but only ended up in the sewer."

"Of course, you nimrod! Don't you know anything about working here?! No door opens to the same room twice in a day! If you leave a room, it switches with another after the door shuts! THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED TRICK-DOORS!"

"Oh. No wonder everyone in this joint can't find the bathroom."

"Just go find those meddlers! And where's that report on the Creeper?!"

"Er, you're not going to like this, ma'am… but the others said it was decapitated, it's head was set on fire, and the body is back in its room, running around like a chicken with its head cut off… like, literately."

LaRael slapped her forehead. "Sheista! Can none of you do anything right?!"

"Um, if it makes you feel any better, mistress, those authors are still missing, no one has found them yet."

"And no one will… Sending those authors away wasn't good enough. With the way our luck is going, they might reclaim their memories!"

"What do you suggest, ma'am? That we kill them?"

LaRael slapped the lacky. "NO! We CAN'T kill them you fool, remember?! We must capture them, and lock them up here!"

"Why didn't we do that in the first place, instead of leaving them lost in the real-world?"

"Because, the real-world is a cruel, merciless universe, and everyone knows cartoonbrids are powerless there. But if they are found, and know how to return…" she turned to her lackey. "Have the others returned from hunting down those OC?"

"No, ma'am… apparently, they don't know how to enter the real-world. None of us do,"

LaRael slapped her forehead. "Just use the hidden entrance!"

"Okay… where's that at?"

The villainess groaned, shaking her head. "Just. Go. Get. The others. I need to think up a new plan,"

They both separated, while inside the room, a baby cooed.

~12~

A/N: You just can't find good help these days XD Well, the meddlers escaped. Next chapter, it's back to me and the East Side Kids! :D

Fangs: A-HEM!

…oh, and our other heroes.

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